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Not for us. But that is because DH refuses to shower for less than 15 mins each day, and leaves the tap running when he is wiping sides, cleaning his teeth etc...ARRGH!
If we were conservative with our water consumption (I am but it just negates his wastage) we could save.
We also live in South West which is expensive anyway.
Some friends of ours are very frugal with their water use and they spend about £25-30 per month in a house where rates are a guess £65? We are on about £50pm and live in a flat, where rates are about £45.
Too late to change back and I am hoping that one day he will learn!!!
we are 2 adults and 2 children. one child in cloth nappies. we haven't cut back per se. I guess we are a bit more careful with things like not always flushing the toilet if ds1 has only done a wee. and using washing up water or water from the water butt to do the garden. but other than that we're not doing anything differently.
that's prob why it's only saving us a few quid a month. we didn't have one voluntarily though, we had to have one put in ewhen we moved house
We initially were on £23 pm but by the end of the year we had so much credit we had a refund. This year I am paying £15 pm but suspect it might not be quite enough!
2 adults and 2 children. We all shower/bath daily but do turn off taps while brushing teeth. I tend not to let it run iyswim. But I do run the washing machine at least once a day and the dishwasher. We also have loads of water butts for the garden.
We pay over £400 per year in water rates - live in Surrey , supplied by thames water. Hoping that we will pay less as really our ratable value has nothing to do with how much water we use .
captainunderpants - I am Surrey also! But not Thames Water... Used to be with them before we moved in 2005. Think it was about £35 pm rates not a meter, so much cheaper for us.
Captain Underpants - we are with Three Valleys Water, on a meter. Our Direct Debit has just gone down from £17 pm to £14. We are a family of 2 adults and 2 children; washing machine and dishwasher run once every day, average of 2 baths or showers run every day. HTH.
Captain Underpants - we are with Three Valleys Water, on a meter. Our Direct Debit has just gone down from £17 pm to £14. We are a family of 2 adults and 2 children; washing machine and dishwasher run once every day, average of 2 baths or showers run every day. HTH.
but not sure why! I remember a thread about water rates before, so should not be surprised that our metered water is less proportionately to rates than the rest of the country.
Rates for year are like£600 for a 2 bed flat. Charges so far for metered water is currently working out at aboutaround £650 (iam paying £30 per month DD but it is not covering it) While we do not save and strimp and scrape, we are not excessive....we have no garden, do not wash our car and have 1 2yo DD. DH showers most days (for 15 mins) and I shower every other day. DD sits at the bottom of our bath when we shower and plays in the water most days, and has her own bath twice a week so that does not use hardly any additional water. Yes DH leaves the tap running, but I dont use the washine machine every day, we have a dishwasher which we use alternate days.
So not excessive....but South West Water is horrendous.
is it really? well i am probably paying for my neighbours too. Where we used to live I was paying my neighbours council tax for 2 years as well as my own! AND THEY KNEW!!!
i think my £8.80 monthly charge is only for water in. i can hardly find anything about water out though, which is Thames water. except our first statement which runs from july 06- may 07 when we paid £62
i thought it was rather high and asked my neighb about her band and she said her dh deals with all that sort of stuff, so left it at that. Then couple years later i was ranting over my latest bill to another neighb who told me what her band was and the investigation began. council people did not realize it was 2 houses. {very old building which was converted}
nice rebate though and big bill of 2 years plus the year they were in for the neighbs
Much cheaper. There are two of us in a three bed house and our bills are less than half what they were. Plus, this year we barely needed to use any tap water on the garden, just used saved rain from the butts.
Unless there are a lot of people in a home, you should make some savings; it is definitely in the interests of couples and single dwellers to have metered water, ie lone parents where dcs only live part of the time with them, or widowed inlaws for example, who by and large use less. It shouldn't cost anything to have the meter installed, and the workmen don't need access to your property unless te water main is in an awkward place, ours is actually under an inspection flap on the pavement.
I refused a meter when moving into my house - much as i'd like to save water we suspected large leaks (hopefully all resolved 3 years on) and needed lots of plumbing done including draining the system a few times.
Given our rates are under £400/year for a 5-bed house, I doubt I'd save money with a meter, especially now we have a baby and all the washing of his clothes and nappies. I have lots of friends who've moved to places with meters and ended up spending more - once most people were moved to meters they put the metered prices up.
at the charges you are paying.
and big bill of 2 years plus the year they were in for the neighbs 
